Research: Can RIM Be Saved?
Research: Can RIM Be Saved?
To find out, we surveyed 536 IT pros. While BlackBerry represents a median of 70% of company-purchased devices in use now, that number plummets to 25% when respondents look ahead 24 months. And, a mere 7% say they plan to increase their use of RIM products.
While the future looks pretty grim, there are some moves the company can make—but they need to be bold, and fast. (R4330212)
Survey Name: InformationWeek Research In Motion Survey
Survey Date: January 2012
Region: North America
Number of Respondents: 536
Table of Contents
3 Author’s Bio
4 Research Synopsis
5 The Executive Shakeup That Wasn’t
7 Failure of Leadership
8 Say What?
9 Don’t Count On the Security Factor
10 IT vs. Users
12 What Now?
14 Appendix
About the Author
Art Wittmann currently serves as the director of InformationWeek Reports, where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's research and reports business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high-tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Network Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek.
Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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 Research: Can RIM Be SavedComment by joesecurity Feb-21,2012 2:02:28 PMYes, I just purchased the 9900. It is nice. One of RIMs problem is sales. All the sales people keep pushing other phones. I think they are getting paid more to sell other type phones. A number of sales people tried to get me to switch.Reply |
 Can RIM Be SavedComment by hkunicki017 Mar-29,2012 1:07:02 PMThe only way RIM can be saved is if they adopt the Android software and write code to keep the Blackberry email. Other than the email there is no reason to continue to use their products because they are so far behind.Reply |
